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Subject: [Towertalk] attaching coax to the tower legs
From: vk2lee@maxnet.net.au (Lee Noonan)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:48:17 +1000
Yes Jim,
I was going to ask how large the cat is??  Well do it by scale.... Pull the
cat thru 6 inch conduit.....
then put Your LMR400 into the 2" conduit.... make sure the bends are more
than 90 degrees...Cats don't like 90 degree bends !!!  Hi Hi....  and  go
for it....
I have just used Belden 9913 cable and ran it in 50mm 2" PVC conduit from
the top of the tower to the house and after hearing so many BAD things about
9913... I asked Belden.... who advised that 9913 should be left out in the
open !!!!
Oh well.... Mine is inside My 2" PVC  Conduit... as its all above ground...
I placed a few Tee pieces in the conduit run to let it "breath" or
whatever!!!! I also painted the conduit flat black to keep the 9913 "warm"
and keep out the condensation!!!!

Best of Luck
Do it !! then don't read towertalk for a few weeks....

Lee VK2LEE       http://www.qrz.com/vk2lee/  http://www.qsl.net/vk2lee/

PS... I don't have a cat anyway... My last cat is still in the 3 inch
conduit between two 90 degree bends..!!!! Hi Hi...



----- Original Message -----
From: <K7LXC@aol.com>
To: <jimsmith@shaw.ca>; <Towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] attaching coax to the tower legs


> In a message dated 10/8/02 2:05:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jimsmith@shaw.ca
> writes:
>
> >  Steve Katz wrote:
> >  >LMR400 is soft cable, easily damaged, and not just by cable ties.  You
> also shouldn't ..... do anything to it that you wouldn't do to your cat.
> > Damn.  I just bought 1000 ft of LMR 400 that I was going to pull through
> >  2" conduit.  Now what do I do?   :-D
 > >  73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO

>     First I'd pull the cat thru the conduit and see how it does. The rest
> should be easy.

> Cheers,
> Steve    K7LXC
> _______________________________________________




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